For young people with opioid use disorder (OUD), buprenorphine costs have declined overall but with drastic variation by payer type, researchers found. Examining buprenorphine prescriptions dispensed ...

Credit: Getty Images. Buprenorphine-naloxone may be more cost-effective than extended-release naltrexone as first-line treatment for opioid use disorder. Buprenorphine-naloxone may be more ...

Over the last 20 years, substance use-related deaths have more than doubled for women of reproductive age. Overdose deaths are now a leading cause of maternal mortality in the U.S., and in some states ...

Butrans (buprenorphine) is a prescription drug used to treat severe, ongoing pain that requires daily medication. Butrans’s cost may depend on factors such as your dosage, whether you have health ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Mallory Berry was ready to give up. It was 2019, and her addiction—prescription opioids had led her to heroin—had left her bedridden. An infection had eaten ...

The AGs had claimed that Invidior used 'product hopping' to block competition from generics for its opioid treatment drug. Drugmaker Invidior PLC says it will pay $102.5 million to 41 states and the ...